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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 9, 1896
Died
August 26, 1975
Place of Birth
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Also Known As
- James Cullen Landis
- J. Cullen Landis
Cullen Landis
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Biography
Cullen Landis (July 9, 1896 – August 26, 1975) was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early ears of the silent film era. James Cullen Landis was the middle of three siblings (two sons and a daughter) raised by Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father supported his family as a stock broker. As a boy, James was a train enthusiast and dreamed to be an railroad engineer. Though the ambition eventually faded, his interest in railroads did not, and some years later he helped design for himself a model train set powered by steam. He began working in the fledgling film industry at age 18 around the time his older sister, Margaret Landis, appeared in her first film. In 1928 Cullen Landis starred in the first ‘all talking’ motion picture, Lights of New York. He once confided in a friend that talkies were perfect for musicals and that he was no "song and dance man". He left Hollywood for Detroit in 1930 to produce and direct industrial films for automobile companies. Landis began as a movie director, only turning to acting after his lead player broke a leg and it was discovered that the actor’s costumes fit him. He went on to become one of the more popular lead actors of the silent era, appearing in some one hundred films over 14 years. During World War II, he served as a captain with US Army Signal Corps producing training films in the South Pacific. By war’s end he was twice decorated and promoted to major. In the post war years he made documentaries for the US State Department that took him to the far corners of the world. James Cullen Landis died on August 28, 1975, aged 79, at a nursing home in Bloomfield, Michigan, three months after the death of his wife, Jane. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
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Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
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Kenneth Avery
Convict's Code
1930
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Jules Barbier
The Little Wild Girl
1928
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Eddie Morgan
Lights of New York
1928
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John Dubray
The Devil's Skipper
1928
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Bud
On to Reno
1928
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Pertio
The Broken Mask
1928
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George Minafer
Two to One
1927
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Jimmy Crestmore
Broadway After Midnight
1927
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Georgie McCarver
We're All Gamblers
1927
Credits
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
1943
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Convict's Code
as Kenneth Avery
1930
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The Little Wild Girl
as Jules Barbier
1928
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Lights of New York
as Eddie Morgan
1928
5.4
The Devil's Skipper
as John Dubray
1928
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On to Reno
as Bud
1928
6.0
The Broken Mask
as Pertio
1928
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Two to One
as George Minafer
1927
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Broadway After Midnight
as Jimmy Crestmore
1927
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We're All Gamblers
as Georgie McCarver
1927
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Life in Hollywood No. 5
1927
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The Fighting Failure
as Denny O'Brien
1926
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The Smoke Eaters
as Ed
1926
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Victor McQuade
1926
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Frenzied Flames
as Danny Grovan
1926
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Christine of the Big Tops
as Bob Hastings
1926
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
as Davy Crockett
1926
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The Dixie Flyer
as 'Sunrise' Smith
1926
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My Old Dutch
as Herbert Brown
1926
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With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
as Gordon Kent
1926
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Perils of the Coast Guard
as Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
1926
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The Midnight Flyer
as David Henderson
1925
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Peacock Feathers
as Jerry Chandler
1925
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An Enemy of Men
as Doctor Phil
1925
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Wasted Lives
as John Grayson
1925
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A Broadway Butterfly
as Ronald Steel
1925
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Pampered Youth
as George Minafer
1925
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Cheap Kisses
as Donald Dillingham
1924
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Born Rich
as Jack Le Moyne
1924
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One Law for the Woman
as Ben Martin
1924
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A Girl of the Limberlost
as Hart Henderson
1924
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The Fighting Coward
as Tom Rumford
1924
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The Man Life Passed By
as Harold Trevis
1923
1.0
The Midnight Alarm
as Chaser
1923
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Masters of Men
as Dick Halpin
1923
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Soul of the Beast
as Paul Nadeau
1923
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Pioneer Trails
as Jack Dale / Jack Plains
1923
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Crashin' Thru
as Cons Saunders
1923
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The Famous Mrs. Fair
as Alan Fair
1923
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The Fog
as Nathan Forge
1923
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Forsaking All Others
as Oliver Newell
1922
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Love in the Dark
as Tim O'Brien
1922
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Youth to Youth
as Page Brookins
1922
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Remembrance
as Seth Smith
1922
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Gay and Devilish
as Peter Armitage
1922
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Watch Your Step
as Elmer Slocum
1922
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Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922
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Voices of the City
as Jimmy
1921
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The Infamous Miss Revell
as Max Hildreth
1921
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The Ace of Hearts
as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
1921
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The Old Nest
as Jim at 22-32
1921
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Snowblind
as Pete Garth
1921
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Bunty Pulls the Strings
as Rab
1921
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It's a Great Life
as Stoddard
1920
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Pinto
as Bob DeWitt
1920
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Jinx
as Slicker Evans
1919
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Almost a Husband
as Jerry Wilson
1919
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Upstairs
as Lemuel Stallings
1919
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
1919
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Where the West Begins
as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
1919
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Cupid In Quarantine
as The Boyfriend
1918
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Her Rustic Romeo
as Jack
1918
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Over the Garden Wall
as Jack
1918
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Somebody's Widow
as Jack Random
1918
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Who Is Number One?
as Tommy Hale
1917
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Sunny Jane
as Thomas
1917
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